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I think whomever this statue represents, would get a cosmic kick out of people, 12000 years into the future, appreciating the majesty of his phallus.

ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
It looks like it’s saying that Death is a wanker. I wonder if it was deliberately humorous, which would add another dimension. I know that the Incas had statues that were basically hardcore pr0n. I’m not sure the reason. Probably fertility stuff.
- PepperdineG 3y ago
  It would be funny if it was the prehistoric equivalent of the city of Dog River putting up a sign saying "Wullerton Sucks!" It could for instance represent a foreigner with the statue saying certain foreigners are wankers.
- lazide 3y ago
  Everyone likes porn, some are just ashamed of it? And apparently they weren’t?
- Loughla 3y ago
  I feel like comedy is so cultural that there are a number of artifacts that are jokes, but we'll never, ever know. Like this thing - maybe it's mocking someone? Who knows.
  - hnbad 3y ago
    It's nearby a relief that is literally some guy stroking his cock with his other hand resting on his stomach. For all we know this was just the work of a very dedicated and very horny artist.
- tanepiper 3y ago
  Archaeologist: "This amazing find represents us understanding early humans and their ties to the seasons and fertility" [8000 years earlier] "Man": "Yea, so Gary over there cut down my favourite Olive tree so I commissioned this huge statute of a dick to let him know how much I hate him"
- hnbad 3y ago
  It's always funny to me how some people will go out of their way to avoid acknowledging that historical people may have liked sex or even been queer. My favorite example is that of two Roman men apparently living together as a household and having items with very graphic depictions of sexual acts between men. They were obviously two very heterosexual men (maybe brothers) and the depictions of men ravaging each other's buttocks were probably a fertility or sports thing. I may be wrong but I don't believe that the reason that bathroom stalls are frequently adorned with crude sketches of penises is "fertility stuff" either rather than just "lol dicks" and I don't think it's a stretch to extrapolate from this to prehistory. There's a very real possibility that this is just a 12,000 year old "realistic human statue" of some bloke double-palming his stiffy (which according to the article is incidentally near a relief of another bloke presenting his stiffy one-handed with the other hand on his stomach). Yes, a two meters tall statue takes quite a bit of effort and suggests more than one person being involved in the process but that shouldn't be surprising.
  - dsign 3y ago
    :-) It is said[^1] that the God of the Jews ravaged Pompeii because of polarized views on the matter of sexuality. A bit later, they won the war for the heart of Western culture. So, yes, those bros had those statues and depictions for the sake of fertility and sports, and our modern occidental brains[^2] will keep glitching when told otherwise. [^1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haP5MoLyWGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haP5MoLyWGw [^2] In case you feel tempted to say those Western values have always been universal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_paintings_in_Bhutan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_paintings_in_Bhutan
    - hnbad 3y ago
      Your first link is to what seems to be a Christian mythology channel rather than a history channel, so I don't know what that brings to the table. Your second link just emphasizes what I said: weiners don't universally mean "fertility symbol". I don't think the blokes drawing peckers on bathroom stalls do it either as a fertility symbol nor to ward off evil spirits, so this still doesn't address that other motivations can exist. Also Pompeii is an actual place that was "ravaged" by a volcanic eruption, not "the God of the Jews". Unless you want to pin actual natural disasters in actual places in actual recorded history on a god of the gaps, I don't think sexuality had anything to do with the volcano.
rokkitmensch 3y ago
Hopefully he'd also find it amusing that the press release absolutely refuses to mention what he's grinning about wiggling at the future.

ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago

It looks like it’s saying that Death is a wanker. I wonder if it was deliberately humorous, which would add another dimension. I know that the Incas had statues that were basically hardcore pr0n. I’m not sure the reason. Probably fertility stuff.

PepperdineG 3y ago
It would be funny if it was the prehistoric equivalent of the city of Dog River putting up a sign saying "Wullerton Sucks!" It could for instance represent a foreigner with the statue saying certain foreigners are wankers.
lazide 3y ago
Everyone likes porn, some are just ashamed of it? And apparently they weren’t?
Loughla 3y ago
I feel like comedy is so cultural that there are a number of artifacts that are jokes, but we'll never, ever know. Like this thing - maybe it's mocking someone? Who knows.
- hnbad 3y ago
  It's nearby a relief that is literally some guy stroking his cock with his other hand resting on his stomach. For all we know this was just the work of a very dedicated and very horny artist.
tanepiper 3y ago
Archaeologist: "This amazing find represents us understanding early humans and their ties to the seasons and fertility" [8000 years earlier] "Man": "Yea, so Gary over there cut down my favourite Olive tree so I commissioned this huge statute of a dick to let him know how much I hate him"
hnbad 3y ago
It's always funny to me how some people will go out of their way to avoid acknowledging that historical people may have liked sex or even been queer. My favorite example is that of two Roman men apparently living together as a household and having items with very graphic depictions of sexual acts between men. They were obviously two very heterosexual men (maybe brothers) and the depictions of men ravaging each other's buttocks were probably a fertility or sports thing. I may be wrong but I don't believe that the reason that bathroom stalls are frequently adorned with crude sketches of penises is "fertility stuff" either rather than just "lol dicks" and I don't think it's a stretch to extrapolate from this to prehistory. There's a very real possibility that this is just a 12,000 year old "realistic human statue" of some bloke double-palming his stiffy (which according to the article is incidentally near a relief of another bloke presenting his stiffy one-handed with the other hand on his stomach). Yes, a two meters tall statue takes quite a bit of effort and suggests more than one person being involved in the process but that shouldn't be surprising.
- dsign 3y ago
  :-) It is said[^1] that the God of the Jews ravaged Pompeii because of polarized views on the matter of sexuality. A bit later, they won the war for the heart of Western culture. So, yes, those bros had those statues and depictions for the sake of fertility and sports, and our modern occidental brains[^2] will keep glitching when told otherwise. [^1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haP5MoLyWGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haP5MoLyWGw [^2] In case you feel tempted to say those Western values have always been universal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_paintings_in_Bhutan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_paintings_in_Bhutan
  - hnbad 3y ago
    Your first link is to what seems to be a Christian mythology channel rather than a history channel, so I don't know what that brings to the table. Your second link just emphasizes what I said: weiners don't universally mean "fertility symbol". I don't think the blokes drawing peckers on bathroom stalls do it either as a fertility symbol nor to ward off evil spirits, so this still doesn't address that other motivations can exist. Also Pompeii is an actual place that was "ravaged" by a volcanic eruption, not "the God of the Jews". Unless you want to pin actual natural disasters in actual places in actual recorded history on a god of the gaps, I don't think sexuality had anything to do with the volcano.

rokkitmensch 3y ago

Hopefully he'd also find it amusing that the press release absolutely refuses to mention what he's grinning about wiggling at the future.